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100 Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers

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This article includes the URL and description of 100 free web tools that can be used by all teachers. The tools are categorized into search engines, math and science, games, templates and lesson plans, and more.

Subject:: Education
Material Type:: Reading
Provider:: Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:: John Costilla
Date Added:: 10/17/2014

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100 Square Jigsaw

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This interactive Flash puzzle helps children develop number sense and an understanding of our decimal number system. A 0-99 square has been cut into 11 irregular pieces which the user re-assembles. A printable (pdf) version is included along with questions for Getting Started and a Teachers' Resources page with implementation suggestions.

Subject:: Engineering; Education; Mathematics
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: Maryland Public Television
Provider Set:: Mathlanding: Elementary Mathematics Pathway
Date Added:: 11/05/2013

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10 Advising Guidelines to Grow Your Undergraduate Program

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Advising guidelines put together at the University of Arkansas as the undergraduate program grew and developed. Presented at the 2012 SPIN-UP conference in Austin and the PhysTEC leadership meeting at the AAPT summer meeting in Edmonton.

Subject:: Education; Physics
Material Type:: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: ComPADRE Digital Library
Provider Set:: ComPADRE: Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education
Author:: Art Hobson; Gay Stewart; Lin Oliver
Date Added:: 06/14/2012

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10 Frame Fill

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This iOS app requires students to use a ten frame to fill in the remaining addend with contrasting chips and then count them to tell how many more to make ten. The app can be set to build sequentially or it can be set to give random values. Additionally, the app includes an option to show number sentences when the problem is complete.

Subject:: Education; Life Science; Mathematics; Chemistry
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive
Provider:: Maryland Public Television
Provider Set:: Mathlanding: Elementary Mathematics Pathway
Author:: Randy Hengst
Date Added:: 12/13/2012

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10 Ways to Build Math Skills This Summer

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10 Ways to Build Math Skills This Summer

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This short article suggests ten math activities which parents can incorporate into their children's summer routines to prevent loss of learning over the summer months. These suggestions can be used year round to help students develop number sense and positive connections to mathematics.

Subject:: Education; Mathematics
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Maryland Public Television
Provider Set:: Mathlanding: Elementary Mathematics Pathway
Author:: GreatSchools Staff
Date Added:: 11/05/2014

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10monkeys Multiplication

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This free iOS app provides practice with multiplication facts in an arcade-like format. Students choose from among 10 levels (2 to 10 times tables and mixed times tables) and identify products of given factors in order to free trapped monkeys. Scoring rewards both accuracy and speed.

Subject:: Education; Mathematics
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive
Provider:: Maryland Public Television
Provider Set:: Mathlanding: Elementary Mathematics Pathway
Date Added:: 07/03/2013

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10th's and Decimals

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In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad replaces a piece of track to get the Madre Bonita Express to the Mother's Day harvest.

Subject:: Mathematics
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development; Teachers' Domain
Author:: U.S. Department of Education; WNET
Date Added:: 07/24/2008

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12 Steps to a Sustainable High School

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This activity includes an assessment, analysis, and action tool that can be used by classrooms to promote understanding of how the complex current issues of energy, pollution, supply, and consumption are not just global but also local issues.

Subject:: Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Connecticut Energy Education
Date Added:: 06/19/2012

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The 1882 Transit of Venus: Observations from Wellington, South Africa

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The transit of Venus is a rare astronomical event that has been well documented throughout history. The most recent transit occurred in June of 2004, and the one before that took place more than 100 years earlier in 1882. This site from the South African Astronomical Observatory provides information and first-hand observations of the 1882 event from Wellington, South Africa. Just prior to the event, an observatory was erected at the Huguenot Seminary for girls, and some of the historical observations made from that site in 1882 are provided here for your perusal.

Subject:: Education; History, Law, Politics; Space Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration
Provider:: AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository
Provider Set:: AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository
Author:: Koorts, W.P.
Date Added:: 01/31/2008

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1900 Air Pollution

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This article and included graphs,from the web site accompanying the FRONTLINE NOVA special What's Up with the Weather?, reveals how atmospheric carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides from coal- and oil-burning power plants, cars, and other fossil-fuel-burning sources have climbed along with the world population, with as yet unknown effects on the climate system.

Subject:: Geoscience; Physics; Space Science
Material Type:: Data Set; Diagram/Illustration; Lesson Plan
Provider:: NSDL Staff
Provider Set:: NSDL Science Refreshers
Date Added:: 12/26/2002

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The 1959 Eruption

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This page from the Volcano World website contains a summary account of the 1959 eruption at Kilauea Iki which is illustrated by photographs and videos.

Subject:: Geoscience
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Author:: University of North Dakota
Date Added:: 11/07/2014

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1964 Alaska Earthquake

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This video adapted from the Valdez Museum & Historical Archive, explores what happened during the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 through original footage, first-person accounts, and animations illustrating plate tectonics.

Subject:: Geoscience; Space Science
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development; Teachers' Domain
Author:: National Science Foundation; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 11/04/2008

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1993 Missouri River Flood Exercise

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An exercise on the effects of flooding that took place in the upper Mississippi River drainage basin in 1993, using before and after satellite images.

Subject:: Geoscience
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Author:: John Bartley
Date Added:: 11/07/2014

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1993 New Car Data

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This dataset, created by Robin H. Locke of St. Lawrence University, describes 93 new cars for the 1993 model year with 26 variables, including price, mpg ratings, and engine size. It also illustrates a broad range of statistical techniques such as box-whisker plot, confidence intervals, difference in means, one-way ANOVA, contingency table, scatterplot, regression, and correlation. If further research is required the author has included a list of references.

Subject:: Mathematics
Material Type:: Data Set; Lesson Plan
Provider:: AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository
Provider Set:: AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository
Author:: Lock, Robin H.
Date Added:: 02/11/2009

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1994 Solar Eclipse

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This movie shows a total eclipse of the Sun which occurred in 1994. It is accompanied by a link to a written description of the Sun's physical characteristics.

Subject:: Chemistry; Geoscience; Physics; Space Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration
Provider:: UCAR Staff
Provider Set:: NASA Earth and Space Science Education Collection
Author:: Fred Espenak
Date Added:: 11/05/2014

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1D Quantum States Applet

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This simulation shows time-dependent 1D quantum bound state wavefunctions for a number of different wells. Position, momentum, parity, energy, and current can all be viewed, with phase shown with color. Eigentstates can be selected using the energy level diagram. Multiple-energy-eigenstate wavefunctions can be created through changes in the amplitude and phase of the basis states using spinors. Postion and energy measurements can be taken, resulting in new states of the system.

Subject:: Physics
Material Type:: Interactive
Provider:: ComPADRE Digital Library
Provider Set:: ComPADRE: Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education
Author:: Paul Falstad
Date Added:: 04/30/2004

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1D Quantum Transitions Applet

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This simulation explores the transitions between quantum states in a number of 1D systems. The time-dependent wavefunction is displayed. An electric field resonant with the transition between states is applied and the changes in the wavefunction with time are tracked. The dipole transition probability is displayed for different initial to final state transitions, and the user may select the transition they wish to observe.

Subject:: Physics
Material Type:: Interactive
Provider:: ComPADRE Digital Library
Provider Set:: ComPADRE: Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education
Author:: Paul Falstad
Date Added:: 05/03/2004

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1.G All vs. Only some

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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: First pose the question: Here are four triangles. What do all of these triangles have in common? What makes them different from the figures that are no...

Subject:: Mathematics
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Illustrative Mathematics
Provider Set:: Illustrative Mathematics
Author:: Illustrative Mathematics
Date Added:: 05/24/2013

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1.G Grandfather Tang's Story

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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials * A copy of Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert * One set of tangrams for each student (see note in commentary) * A set of tangrams for t...